Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Ansible
Ansible is the simplest way to automate
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Ansible launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Server and configuration management for humans
2015 · ansiblefordevops.com · its alternatives →
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Interactive Ansible tutorials with dead simple setup via Docker - turkenh/ansible-interactive-tutorial
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Your very own offline-first privacy-centric open-source data-center! https://homelabos.com/
2018 · gitlab.com · its alternatives →
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Minimal distributed configuration management in bash - frameable/aviary.sh
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Jupyter Notebook Kernel for running Ansible Tasks and Playbooks - ansible/ansible-jupyter-kernel
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi Everyone. My name is Mike. I've created a free Ansible Crash Course. It's a course aimed at people who are new to Ansible and want to get up and running quickly. It goes into a fair amount of detail on most topics, but should something be missing just let me know and I'll add it in. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated! Just note an email address is required to register for the course - this is a limitation of the platform I'm using to host the course. Sorry about that! The course can be found over here: https://www.thecloud.coach/ansible-crash-course Any and all…
2019 · its alternatives →
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Happy new year folks! This tool was born out of a situation where I had 'inherited' a bunch of servers that were not under any form of config management. Oh, the horror... Enroll 'harvests' system information such as what packages are installed, what services are running, what files have 'differed' from their out-of-the-box defaults, and what other custom snowflake data might exist. The harvest state data can be kept as its own sort of SBOM, but also can be converted in a mere second or two into fully-functional Ansible roles/playbooks/inventory. It can be run remotely over SSH or…
Jan 2026 · enroll.sh · its alternatives →
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Assisted automation writing tool for your Ansible Playbooks
2022 · steampunk.si · its alternatives →
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2017 · play.ansible.online · its alternatives →
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Efficiently manage your Rails environment with Ansible.
2015 · efficientrailsdevops.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, long time lurker here. I humbly present ara which is a project I created back at Red Hat in 2016 (before AWX was open source) to make my life easier working with distributed and large scale Ansible playbooks. It is designed to be simple and compatible with however you're already running Ansible today without needing to change much of your existing workflows. My time and skills are limited but I have learned a lot and I am happy with how the project has steadily improved over the years with the much appreciated help of contributors. If you'd like to read more about the project, the…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hazel 4.0▲252The new and improved file automator for the Mac
2016 · noodlesoft.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, I like Ansible as a tool for automation to perform tasks on multiple remote hosts. But like many of you, I'm sick of the custom YAML DSL that many of this kind of tools provide. How many times have we said "just give me a true scripting language!" ? That's why I started this project `tricorder` (as in Star Trek's tricorder, a simple device to do pretty much anything required by the plot). For now, it's only a tool to execute a command on multiple hosts (like ansible, but without the YAML) and returning the outputs as JSON so you can query it with other tools like `jq` in your bash…
2022 · its alternatives →
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Make a self hosted OpenVPN server in 15 minutes. Contribute to robbintt/popup-openvpn development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Simple Saltstack-like deployment system in 2k lines of Python - mattbillenstein/salty
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Fast and simple IT automation and configuration management
2016 · its alternatives →
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- Ansible Kernel – Run Ansible Tasks and Plays with Jupyter Notebook alternatives
- Ansible Crash Course alternatives
Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →